Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 M04 1 - 200 pages In Nature's Kindred Spirits James McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behavior. By embracing the ecstasy of nature, they reject modern alienation and spiritual confusion. |
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... shares with Leopold , Krutch , Abbey , and Snyder what Gary Mcllroy characterizes as " a philosophy which seeks truth from facts , meaning from methodology , and coherence overall . " 10 Among these writers , Gary Snyder's connections ...
... share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves , we shall not be able to live on it for long " ( VD , 195 ) . If humans are to live " healthily and successfully , " we must , he concludes , " acknowledge some sort of ...
... share other striking elements . They each acknowledge dramatic conversions in their thinking , feeling , and behavior that turned them from modernist alienation char- acteristic of mainstream American literary intellectuals to affir ...
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